There will be blood.
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
"Imagine the imagery of Sam Peckinpah and Heironymus Bosch as written by William Faulkner, and you'll have just an inkling of this novel's power."
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-Suggestions for the next book club selection are welcome at any time. We'll vote on the next book once we're finished with this one.
Reading Milestones:
Sun, Oct 2 - Ch I - II
Tue, Oct 4 - Ch III - IV
Thu, Oct 6 - Ch V - VI
Sat, Oct 8 - Ch VII - VIII
Mon, Oct 10 - Ch IX - X
Wed, Oct 12 - Ch XI - XII
Fri, Oct 14 - Ch XIII - XIV
Sun, Oct 16 - Ch XV - XVI
Tue, Oct 18 - Ch XVII - XVIII
Thu, Oct 20 - Ch XIX - XX
Sat, Oct 22 - Ch XXI - XXII
Mon, Oct 24 - Ch XXIII, Epilogue
Future Book Club Possibilities:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Devil In the White City by Erik Larson
If on a winter's night, a traveler by Italo Calvino
Dubliners by James Joyce
[your recommendation here!]
Previous Book Club Threads:
The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov (Sep 2011)
The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (Aug 2011)
Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian (July 2011)
The Happiness Project, by Gretchen Rubin (June 2011)
A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (May 2011)
The Afghan Campaign, by Steven Pressfield (Apr 2011)
Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein (Mar 2011)
Flashman, by George MacDonald Fraser (Feb 2011)